There could be planets orbiting violent dead stars, and now we know how to find them
Have you ever heard of LU Camelopardalis, QZ Serpentis, V1007 Herculis and BK Lyncis? No, they don’t seem to be members of a boy band in historical Rome. They’re cataclysmic variables, binary stars which can be so shut collectively that one star pulls materials from its sister. This causes the pair to differ vastly in … Read more